Tag: dailyprompt-1852

Explanation: this is to add on to my previous answer to this prompt. Hope it’s okay reading, and also thanks everyone for the visit ❤

I’m passionate about genealogy and family-history, including our cultural identity and genetics. So when I convinced many of my relatives to join me in DNA-testing, we have learned a lot about our connection with different relatives we didn’t even know of. The gift of this knowledge cannot be ignored and it’s actually profound in nature, compassion and unity.

I’m especially interested in our connection with indigenous cultures and Traveller peoples, and we are documented Sámi ethnicity of course like the genealogy research had shown. It’s deep within me to research history in several ways, my favourite ways being traditional genealogy and research related to DNA-testing matches.

I also write about our ethnicity estimates, my own recent estimate said around 75% Norwegian, 17% Finnish/Sámi, 7% Swedish and 2% Danish. My paternal grandmother also had around 2% Irish estimate, it’s so cool in my humble honest opinion ❤

On our family roots in Traveller cultures it’s on both sides; my father Scandinavian Romani from Trøndelag region and my mother indigenous Norwegian Traveller from Agder and Rogaland region, Scandinavian Romani of Trøndelag and Southern Sweden plus quite distant Yenish origins via the Agder+Rogaland Norwegian Traveller peoples. Our ancestors sometimes lived on boats year-round and the love of traditional travel by the Sea is strong in our family culture.

I’m a true far-left anarchist in my view of society and political themes, my political ideology. So I believe our family roots being very left-leaning or some cases communist ideology combined with ethnicity based discrimination and even violent racism has influenced us a lot.

Thank you, MyHeritage, for introducing me and others in family to genealogy research online. Have a wonderful day everyone ❤

Daily writing prompt

Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.

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I don’t exactly know who really gifted it, but it changed my life forever. It was when I found MyHeritage in 2007 and began researching our family history. I was 14 years old and my autistic passion was powerfully ignited by this deep discovery of my roots. I spent many hours every day to research and record our ancestry. (I was undiagnosed at that time, btw).

There are physical gifts included in this kind of interest, especially photos and other images of relatives and ancestors going back many generations. I love pictures and it’s one of my favourite aspects of genealogy, my grandfather gave me many old photos of his side of family. I wish he was still here so I could thank him again.

Many, many years later my father (I don’t really know him) agreed to do the DNA-test because I wanted to know more about our roots and this is one of the best gifts I have gotten in adult life. It shows me that sometimes the best things are inside of us always, our connection via DNA and history.

This is both interesting, insightful and fun. I cannot imagine life without genealogy, and it’s my roots and my destiny together.

thank you for reading this ❤